When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler - David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House

David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House

Category: History

Narrator: James Romick

Tags: History, Military

By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart Americas peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the German army and shattered Hitlers imperial designs., Told in swift stirring prose, When Titans Clashed provides the first full account of this epic struggle from the Soviet perspective. David Glantz, one of the worlds foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and Jonathan House present a fundamentally new interpretation of what the Russians called the Great Patriotic War. Based on unprecedented access to formerly classified Soviet sources, they counter the German perspective that has dominated previous accounts and radically revise our understanding of the Soviet experience during World War II., Placing the war within its wider political, economic, and social contexts, the author